Readers React: Grow up and drink your treated sewage water

To the editor: Really? The Times chose to use potty humor (sewage to beverage, toilet to tap) aimed at its most uninformed readers to report on a major decision addressing Los Angeles’ long-term water needs? (“MWD aims to turn sewage into beverage,” Sept. 23)

The Times could have informed its readers that every drop of water we drink has been consumed and excreted innumerable times by other humans, and that MWD’s proposal is to develop a system, like other agencies worldwide have already done, to duplicate the natural process that purifies that water.

Art Walsh, Altadena

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To the editor: Rather than get over the so-called yuck factor, as suggested in The Times’ wise editorial on water, perhaps we should meet the challenge of learning to live with it. (“All water, no ‘Yuck’!” Editorial, Sept. 24)

After all, life is full of yucky-ness. We drink, therefore we urinate; we eat, therefore we defecate; we are made of flesh, bone and guts, therefore we bleed and we die and are subject to pain and suffering during our lifetimes.

Perhaps we can begin to open our minds and embrace what it is to be fully alive, yuck factors and all.

Ben Miles, Huntington Beach

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